06-24-10 Summer Beginnings

06-24-10 Summer Beginnings In this issue: June in the Garden Stuff to Do Gardenerd Tip of the Month: All About Leeks Gardenerd Product of the Month: Gardenerd Hand Care Kit…

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07-15-11 Garden Independence

07-15-11 Garden Independence In this issue: July in the Garden How Heirlooms Can Feed the World Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Braiding Garlic Gardenerd Product of the Month: SALE on…

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Cabbage and Caramelized Onion Soup

‘Tis the season to harvest cabbage, and we’ve been on a campaign to find tasty uses for it this month. Our crop consists of Vertus Savoy
cabbage (with seeds from Bountiful Gardens). It grew well in Southern California, and it was a delight to finally be able to grow an open-pollinated variety of savoy cabbage (hard to find).
 

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Homesteading: Making Yogurt…Again

After seeing Vegucated, the vegan documentary that shows the underside of our country’s meat
and dairy industry, I was highly motivated to find organic milk products from truly trustworthy suppliers. Many of our organic dairy manufacturers like Horizon and Organic Valley still utilize
confined feedlot techniques and, without going in to details, they don’t treat their cows very well. I wanted control over my dairy ASAP.

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Jerusalem Artichokes

One of the benefits of participating in the Westside Produce Exchange is that,
while you never know what you’re going to get, you can usually count on something new and unusual. This month’s Exchange featured Jerusalem Artichokes.

The participants stood in a cluster, staring down at these knobby roots (tubers actually) wondering 1) what are they? and 2) what do we do with them?  The answers that followed were as colorful
as the questions.

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Updated – New 2012 Spring/Summer Seed Collection

It’s time to start thinking about the future, and whether that’s the upcoming holiday season or next year’s garden, Gardenerd is here to motivate you. What better way to start the ball rolling than a
tour through the new 2012 Spring/Summer Seed Collection?

Each year we select our favorite heirloom varieties, or coveted heirlooms that we’ve been dying to grow. We choose a trusted seed source that takes the Safe Seed Pledge and promotes bio-diversity by
offering heirloom and open pollinated varieties that you can grow, save and plant again year after year. …

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Lime Theme Continues: Black Bean Soup w/ Jalapeño Lime Creme

In an effort to use up more of the gifted limes from a friend (see Watermelon Lime Sorbet), I
pulled out Ann Gentry’s Real Food Daily Cookbook for ideas. Flipping through the index, I found several lime-infused dishes that must be tried. The first: Black Bean Soup with Jalapeño Lime Creme.

Alicia Silverstone has kindly reproduced it on her site, The Kind Life, so …

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